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Cruise Review: Jack Holden ‘gives a tour de force performance’
Simon Button also writes "Cruise is a stirring, core-shaking piece of work that is by turns uplifting, distressing, comical, caustic, and nostalgic for a bygone era".
HIV/AIDS
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Cruise: How the aids drama is modern day gay folklore
Attitude chats to the play's writer and actor, Jack Holden, as well as Tash Walker, the co-chair of Switchboard LGBT+ Helpline.
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Cruise’s Jack Holden on bringing the 1980s Aids drama back to the West End
The Olivier nominated play returns once again.
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California man is ‘beyond grateful’ after becoming the fifth person cured of HIV
"When I was diagnosed with HIV in 1988, like many others, I thought it was a death sentence."
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Olly Alexander and Stephen Fry join calls for groundbreaking HIV treatment to be more available
A letter from HIV charities says an injectable treatment could "have a transformative effect on the global AIDS response".
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Public attitudes on HIV are stuck in 1980s, says new data
The Terrence Higgins Trust has revealed the data on the 40th anniversary of Terrence Higgins' death from an Aids-related illness.
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Ricky Gervais responds to outrage over ‘dangerous’ jokes about trans people and Aids in Netflix Special
GLAAD has condemned Ricky Gervais’ new Netflix special stating “it’s full of graphic, dangerous, anti-trans rants masquerading as jokes”.
Culture Film & TV
It’s A Sin fans are shocked after the Aids drama was ‘snubbed’ at the BAFTA TV Awards
The show had six nominations at the 2022 Virgin Media BAFTA Awards, but failed to take home any awards.
Culture Film & TV
Olly Alexander, Callum Scott Howells and It’s A Sin get 11 BAFTA nominations
"I can't even tell you how much this means to me," actor Callum Scott Howells has said.
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Sir Elton John and It’s a Sin stars join calls to end new HIV diagnoses by 2030
"It doesn't have to be this way. I'm asking you to seize this once-in-a-generation opportunity to change countless lives."
Culture Film & TV
The Normal Heart review: Seminal AIDS drama ‘still seethes with anger and passion’
Director Dominic Cooke "mines the humour as well as the tragedy", writes Simon Button.
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Billy Porter delivers powerful Attitude Man of the Year acceptance speech: ‘This is what HIV looks like now’
“This is what HIV looks like now. This is what courage looks like now. This is what bravery looks like now. This is what activism looks like now.
Culture Sexuality
How the impact of It’s A Sin is still being felt months after the finale
Attitude's Inspiration Award goes to a series that awakened a new generation to the raw truth of the HIV/Aids crisis and its aftermath.
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Failing to end HIV transmissions in the UK by 2030 would be a ‘moral failing’, says HIV charity
Charities are calling on the UK Government to help fund a plan to end HIV transmissions in the UK by 2030, which they say is achievable.
Culture Film & TV
Lil Nas X’s debut album ‘Montero’ has helped raise thousands for charity
The rapper has linked each song to a charity as part of a 'baby registry' for the album and has encouraged people to donate.
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Moderna to start human trials of a potentially revolutionary HIV vaccine
The trials could start as early as 19 August and are expected to run until 2023.
Culture Film & TV
DaBaby’s apology to the LGBTQ community has been deleted from Instagram
The rapper's first seemingly sincere apology post didn't even last a week.
Culture Sexuality
Diagnosed with HIV at 17, Marc Thompson has been stamping out stigma ever since
The Prepster co-founder is one of 10 everyday LGBTQ heroes honoured at the Attitude Pride Awards 2021, supported by Clifford Chance.
Culture Film & TV
‘Cruise’ at the Duchess Theatre review: A funny, sobering, and heart-warming look at the Aids crisis
Jack Holden's one-man show explores the hedonistic life of a gay man living in Soho in the 1980s.
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Olly Alexander and Elton John join forces for ‘glorious’ performance of ‘It’s a Sin’ at the BRITs
The pair's cover of the Pet Shop Boys' 1987 track has already topped the UK iTunes chart.